Moscow: The United States grew “arrogant and self-confident” after the collapse of the Soviet Union, leading to the expansion of the Nato military alliance, former leader Mikhail Gorbachev said. In recent years President Vladimir Putin has grown increasingly insistent that Nato is encroaching close to Russia‘s borders, and Moscow last week demanded “legal guarantees” that the US-led … Read more
Haji Mohammad Pahlawan waves his whip in the air, pulling his grey stallion away from the calf carcass he has just dumped in a goal to claim victory in a tournament of ‘buzkashi,’ Afghanistan’s national sport. A cloud of dust swirls around the heaving scrum of three dozen horses competing in the final contest on … Read more
ANKARA, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday discussed ways to enhance bilateral relations and exchanged views on regional developments, Turkey’s presidency said. They discussed “steps to improve Turkey-Russia relations,” said the statement, noting that Erdogan reiterated his determination to advance the cooperation between the two … Read more
KIEV: Russian President Vladimir Putin is bent on destroying Ukraine but there is no major risk of an imminent invasion, a senior Ukrainian security official said. Speaking to AFP in an interview, Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, said that talk of Moscow’s invasion could destabilise Ukraine and play into Putin’s hands. … Read more
The US Apparel Group, the country’s leading denim and apparel exporter, plans a large-scale footwear manufacturing venture in Lahore, as the country’s textile sector is aggressively pursuing diversified expansion. Sources said the US Group’s footwear manufacturing plant would primarily cater to the procurement demands of the world’s leading brands. The US Group creates denim and … Read more
With Greece a key gateway for migrants into Europe, the government has bolstered border patrols, tightened asylum laws and curtailed refugee benefits. A number of organisations with a years-long record of helping asylum seekers now face a ‘hostile’ environment in Greece, while several newcomer groups are essentially waved through John Hadoulis ATHENS Ground Reality (branding) … Read more
Pakistan’s cellular and digital services leader, Zong, has teamed up with Pak-China Friendship School Gwadar to establish a digital lab under its agenda of “Let’s Get Digital”, a statement said. The Pak-China Gwadar Middle School, also commonly known as Faqeer Middle School, is located in Gwadar’s Faqeer Colony. This school is part of a Chinese-funded … Read more
The 10 most expensive weather disasters this year caused more than $170 billion (150 billion euros) in damage, $20 billion more than in 2020, a British aid group said on Monday. Each year, UK charity Christian Aid calculates the cost of weather incidents like flooding, fires and heat waves according to insurance claims and reports … Read more
XI’AN, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) — New land-sea cargo delivery services were launched on Saturday between Xi’an, the capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, and Mannheim in Germany. A train carrying 50 containers loaded with electronics and cross-border e-commerce commodities departed from the Xi’an international port station at midnight on New Year’s Day, marking the opening … Read more
Its logo is a tomato, not an apple, but in just eight years Jordanian company Tamatem has already bitten a chunk out of the lucrative market for Arabic mobile games. “Less than one per cent of internet content is in Arabic, even though there are 400 million Arab users,” said the company’s founder and CEO … Read more
Marlowe Hood PARIS: Across a quarter century of UN climate conferences tasked with saving humanity from itself, one was deemed a chaotic failure (Copenhagen/2009), another a stunning success (Paris/2015), and the rest landed somewhere in between. This year’s COP26 inspired all these reactions at once. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, leading a 100,000-strong march through the … Read more
